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So you neglected to tell me why the 1 Cor passage and the Exodus passage are different. What is the definition of Jealous as used in Exodus 20:5 and the definition as used in 1 Cor 13:4?
I already hinted at this earlier. "Godly jealousy" is an emotional upset a person, or God, experiences when something that belongs to her, or Him, is unrightfully misplaced and/or neglected. Obviously, since Paul uses the exact same Greek word (i.e. ζηλόω (zéloó) [see Strong's Greek: 2206. ζηλόω (zéloó) -- to be jealous] in 2 Corinthians 11:2 as he does in 1 Corinthians 13:4, then Paul is denoting a different kind of jealousy in each case: one kind of jealousy is the "Godly jealousy" that God expresses in the Old Testament, and that Christians can rightfully express among each other within the Church or within their marriages.
"Carnal jealousy," on the other hand, which Paul is referring to in 1 Corinthians 13:4, is the desire and envy that comes with wanting something that is "not yours and not due you"; it's more like "gross envy." It's the kind of jealousy that the Corinthians apparently--in their constant divisions, spiritual pomposity, carnality and lawsuits--were expressing and by which they were voiding their attempts in claiming any kind of real "Christian love" for each other. Paul had to set them straight on this.
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